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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura
Bioinformatician at Institut Josep Carreras | MSc
Biotechnologist living around computers, interested in data analysis to support experimental research as well as in pure (bio)computational experiments and in software/pipeline development. See more about me on my website.
Experience
Bioinformatician
Institut Josep Carreras, Vavouri’s lab
Badalona, Spain
08/2021 - Present
Study of PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), their biogenesis and variation across species. | Development of a pipeline for processing smallRNA-seq data focussed to analyze piRNAs.
Bioinformatician
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Pasini’s lab
Milan, Italy
07/2019 - 07/2021
Study of Wnt/\(\beta\)catenin signaling pathway -and others- in the context of colorectal cancer and stem cell development. | Analysis and integration of RNA-seq, ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq data.
Master’s thesis student & Research assistant
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Gene expression
Seville, Spain
09/2017 - 10/2018
Study of Xrn1 and Ccr4 roles in yeast nucleosome architecture and gene transcription. | Analysis of MNase-seq data. | Performance and analysis of MNase-qPCR experiments.
Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
09/2016 - 06/2017
Microbiological and molecular analyses for pathogen detection and food forensics. | Study of butyrate effects on the ileal microbiota of colectomized colorectal cancer patients.
Education
MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Online
2018 - Present
Overall grade: 8.94
Master’s thesis: Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species. Grade: 9.7/10
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Seville, Spain
2017 - 2018
Overall grade: 9.2/10
Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription. Grade: 9.2/10
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Girona, Spain
2012 - 2017
Overall grade: 8.12/10
Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy. Grade: 9.4/10
Publications
Begley et al. Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration. RNA Biology 2020. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504
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